"cowboy letting agents draw huge increase in complaints" - Scotland

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Today's Glasgow Herald has a front page article on the lack of regulation of Letting Agents in Scotland

Comments reported from Graeme Brown director of Shelter Scotland:

“.... letting agents have been allowed to carry on in an unregulated sector reminiscent of the Wild West, with the flagrant disregard for the law by some causing havoc and upheaval to despairing tenants.”

and Mike Dailly, principal solicitor at Govan Law Centre:

“The voluntary system has been a step in the right direction but it is not fully capable of protecting tenants in the private sector.
There are a lot of tenants who have been pushed out of the public sector into renting through letting agents because they have nowhere to turn to, and we need to look at proper regulation to give them more protection.”

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